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Edited by Brandie Baumann
Grove Art Online Enriches Images Display
Grove Art Online can now display images in position in the text of an article, enabling students, researchers, librarians and scholars to view works of art while reading about them. More than 1,500 high- quality images and line drawings from Art Resource and the print edition of The Dictionary of Art can be viewed as thumbnail images within an article and then can be enlarged to provide complete caption information. For a list of illustrated articles, go to www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/illustrations.html Contact Laura Chittivej (lchittiv@bcr.org) at BCR for subscription and pricing information.

OUP Updates Online Products
Oxford University Press has implemented two new updates to OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) that include expanded vocabulary entries and a new feature that allows users to look up words using their browsers.

More than 150 new words and phrases have been added to OED Online, including such oddities as helmet hair, scrunchie and hog heaven. Explore the list of new entries at www.oed.com/help/latest.htm.
Users can now look up words in OED Online direct from other Web sites. This feature takes just seconds to set up. Go to dictionary.oed.com/services/browser-button.html for details.

In addition, updates have been completed for the American National Biography Online (ANB) and Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection (OROP). Twenty-eight new articles were added to ANB online, representing a broad spectrum of activities and achievements, from musical performers Ray Charles and jazz great, Lionel Hampton, to stage and screen personalities such as Katherine Hepburn, to important persons in business and academic circles. For a list of new entries, go to www.anb.org/update.html.

The OROP update also includes a new title, A Dictionary of Modern Design, an additional 4,000-plus color illustrations from the Visual English Dictionary, new Timeline themes and new search functionality. The Visual English Dictionary now has more than 6,000 illustrations, and the new fully searchable captions provide quick access to a wide range of topics. The addition of A Dictionary of Modern Design affords users 150 years of international design, including entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, fashion and more. A new issue of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has been published, and new timelines for painting and American Presidents have been added. Icons now appear in search results which contain maps, illustrations and timeline links, and a new "Maps and Illustrations" category tab allows users to reorder their search results.

For additional information on these database products or to subscribe, contact BCR's Laura Chittivej (lchittiv@bcr.org).

Subscription Deadlines Approaching
May 5 is the renewal deadline for BCR's annual group subscriptions to McGraw-Hill's AccessScience database and all LexisNexis databases. Pricing is available on BCR's Web site (www.bcr.org/reference/). To ensure your library patrons receive continuous access to these reference services, please make sure your renewal is submitted to BCR by the May 5 deadline. New subscribers also are invited to sign up for these databases during BCR's annual enrollment periods.

Ovid Platform Databases Now Available
BCR is now offering its member libraries a discount on the Ovid platform. BCR has offered the SilverPlatter platform databases from Ovid for many years, and we are happy to add the Ovid platform databases to our selection of discounted products.

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